About
The Product Design Research Studio is based in at the University of Dundee – as part of the College of Art, Science and Engineering located in the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. We are a group of researchers, tutors, PHD students and designers. Our main areas of interest are digital products, interaction design, social design and playful new technologies. We are:
Jon Rogers
@ileddigital
Michael Shorter
@michaelshorter
Tom Metcalfe
@tommetcalfe
Simone O’Callaghan
@elusivesprite
Paul Gault
@peg
Arthi Manohar
@arthimanohar
Roy Shearer
@royshearer
Steve Birnie
@stevenjbirnie
Larissa Pschetz
@entretags
You can follow what we do on twitter with #productdundee
Current projects include:
INTERACTIVE NEWSPRINT will work together with people in communities from Preston to experiment with a brand new technology called interactive paper. Researchers from Dundee, Surrey and UCLan want to find out whether interactive paper could become a really interesting way of telling news stories or giving out information about whatโs happening in the local community.
interactivenewsprint.org/
PAPER APPS is three and a half years of exploring potential applications for paper electronics.
BESPOKE is a 2 year funded project by the RCUK Digital Economy Programme. How can community journalism generate responsive design for deprived communities? www.bespoke-project.org
TOTEM is a 3 year research project funded by the RCUK Digital Economy Programme. The project investigates the potential for digital tagging to link objects to stories for mass story telling in The Internet of Things. www.talesofthings.org
PARTICIPANTS UNITED is a 1 year network grant funded by AHRC. Linking connected communities networking project to find new synergies and processes for understanding deprived communities.
ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET is a 3 year scholarship funded by Microsoft Research to explore new forms of navigation, mainly focused on social and community effects.
COMMUNITY SELF-SERVICE is a 5 year scholarship funded by NCR Exploring new methods to provide self-service solutions for communities. stevebirnie.wordpress.com/